>> I ran 'netstat -lp' on a system of mine and found a couple of strange >> things. >> >> tcp 0 0 1.2.3.4.st:https *:* LISTEN >> 2929/apache2 >> udp 0 0 1.2.3.4.stat:ntp *:* >> 3203/ntpd >> >> 1.2.3.4 is not the IP address that actually appeared, but I don't >> recognize the one that did appear. An IP lookup says it is in the >> Czech Republic and I'm in the US. I did a grep of my system looking >> for the IP and found two recent "Relay access denied" messages in the >> mail log from a sender with an email address like >> "[email protected]" where myhost.com is my host's >> domain. >> >> The other strange item was the following entry repeated over and over >> under UNIX sockets: >> >> warning, got bogus unix line. >> >> Can anyone shed some light on either of these? > > I suspect your IP address is 4.3.2.1, and your ISP gives it a reverse DNS > of 1.2.3.4.static.reverse.myhst.com.
You're right of course. :) I need to read up on reverse DNS. > Try netstat -lpn Ah, so much better. Thank you. Still getting those "warning, got bogus unix line." lines instead of UNIX sockets though. - Grant
